shaan · lean, rest

What it means

shaan (שָׁעַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lean, rest”.

Lean on, recline to rest; rely on.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To rest one's weight upon something that holds one up.
2. To trust in YHWH, or in supports that fail.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lean ×7
• leans ×4
• rely ×3
• Because you relied ×2
• was leaning ×2
• he leaned ×1
• rest ×1
• they relied ×1
• when they leaned ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 18:4

  Let a little water be brought, please, and wash your feet, and rest under the tree.

• Numbers 21:15

  and the slope of the brooks that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans on the border of Moab.”

• Judges 16:26

  And Samson said to the boy who was holding him by his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, so that I may lean on them.”

• 2 Samuel 1:6

  The young man who was reporting it to him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and look, Saul was leaning on his spear; and look, the chariots and the horsemen were following him closely.

• 2 Kings 5:18

  In this matter may YHWH pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may YHWH pardon your servant in this matter.”

• 2 Kings 7:2

  The captain on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of Elohim and said, “Look, even if YHWH were making floodgates in the heavens, could this thing happen?” He said, “Look, you will see it with your own eyes, but from there you will not eat.”

• 2 Kings 7:17

  The king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be over the gate; and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, as the man of Elohim had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

• 2 Chronicles 13:18

  The sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the sons of Judah grew firm, because they relied on YHWH, Elohim of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 14:11

  Asa cried out to YHWH his Elohim and said, “YHWH, there is none like you to help between the mighty and the one without strength. Help us, YHWH our Elohim, for on you we rely, and in your name we have come against this multitude. YHWH, you are our Elohim; do not let mortal man prevail against you.”

• 2 Chronicles 16:7

  At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Aram, and did not rely on YHWH your Elohim, therefore the force of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

• 2 Chronicles 16:8

  Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a numerous force, with chariots and horsemen in very great number? Yet because you relied on YHWH, he gave them into your hand.

• Job 8:15

  He leans on his house, but it does not stand; he holds fast to it, but it does not endure.

• Job 24:23

  He gives him security, and he leans on it; and his eyes are on their ways.

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in YHWH with all your heart, and on your own understanding do not lean.

• Isaiah 10:20

  And it will happen on that day that the remnant of Israel and the escaped of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them, but will lean on YHWH, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

• Isaiah 30:12

  Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you reject this word and trust in oppression and crookedness and lean on it,

• Isaiah 31:1

  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, and YHWH they do not seek!

• Isaiah 50:10

  Who among you fears YHWH, listens to the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no brightness, let him trust in the name of YHWH, and lean on his Elohim.

• Ezekiel 29:7

  When they grasped you by the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you were broken, and you made all their loins stagger.

• Micah 3:11

  Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets divine for silver; and on YHWH they lean, saying, “Is not YHWH in our midst? No evil will come upon us.”

And 2 more times.